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What we should've done, how to successfully sign Batistuta 09:52 - Jan 22 with 913 views

Interesting story in the first of James Richardson’s new Italian football podcast. Gabriele Marcotti told the story of how Gabriel Batistuta was transferred from Fiorentina to Roma in 2000.

What happened was Roma’s manager (Fabio Capello) and director of football went to dinner with the editor of the Corriere dello Sport newspaper and convinced the editor to run a story saying that the owner of Roma had signed Batistuta. Once the story appeared in the paper the clamour from the fans for it to be true (including turning up at the owner’s house celebraintg) was basically too much for the owner to resist and Batistuta became a Roma player. They won the Scudetto the next season.

If only the Town fans of 1994 had acted similarly we might have had a very different mid 90s.

The podcast is https://www.thetotallyfootballshow.com/golazzo-totally-italian-football-show/ -

The story is about 18 minutes in.

What we should've done, how to successfully sign Batistuta on 10:27 - Jan 22 with 849 views

GeoffSentence

If only easyjet and Ryanair had been running cheapo flights to Italy at the time it would have been in the bag.

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What we should've done, how to successfully sign Batistuta on 10:29 - Jan 22 with 843 views

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What we should've done, how to successfully sign Batistuta on 10:27 - Jan 22 by GeoffSentence
If only easyjet and Ryanair had been running cheapo flights to Italy at the time it would have been in the bag.

i still think meeting sheepy in KFC should have swung it

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